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A. PRYM.

HOOK AND EYE;

Patented Feb. 19, 1895.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OE IcE.

AUGUST PRYM, OF STOLBERG, GERMANY.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,376, dated February 19, 1895.

which the following is an exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes for dresses, and the object of my said improvements is to construct the hooks and eyes with uniformly prolonged fastening shanks, so that when the hooks are sewed on one side of the garment and the eyes on the other, the necessary distance between one book and another and between one eye and another is obtained without measuring, and each eye willbe exactly opposite the hook intended for it.

A further object of my invention is to construct hooks and eyes in sucha manner, that they may be sewedto the fabric more easily.

and firmly than hitherto, and to provide means for preventing any spontaneous disengagement of said hooks and eyes.

Therefore, my invention consists in elongating the fastening shanks and bending the wire of said elongated fastening shanks, be tween the middle part thereof and the small fastening-eyes provided at the ends of the wire, into sinuosities which present several points where stitches may be made easily as will be hereinafter set forth and claimed.

My invention consists further in a particular construction of the hook, as described further on, and specified in the claims.

In order to disclose my invention more fully, I will proceed to give a detailed description of the same by the aid of the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved hook and eye. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 2 shows a slight modification of the hook. vFigs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modification.

Similar letters refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views.

Referring particularly to Fig. 1, B is the Patented in B elgium April 11, 1892.1lo. 99,188, and in England 2,110. 6,937.

hook proper formed of wire and having its side-bars b I) brought together into substantial contact at the point as. From this point of contact the shanks extend in the following manner: first, downward in a curve or bend c, thence upward in a curve or bend c which returns to about the plane of the curve 0 and terminates in a fastening eye 0 It will be observed that the point of contact m of the side-bars and the centers of the fastening eyes lie all in the same plane (line 34) and that the lower portion of the eyes 0? are in the same plane as the lowermost portion of the hook, that is, in the plane of the bends cc, as represented by the line 12. The highest points of the bends 0' lie in the same plane as the highest points of the eyes 0 that is to say, in the plane 5-6.

It will thus be observed that three lines of points of fastening are provided correspond ing to the lines or planes 12 34 56 before mentioned, that is to say, the hook may be fastened along the line 3-4c which corresponds to the plane of the center of the fastening eyes and the point of contact as of the side-bars of the hook. If, now, the hook or eye be fastened to a garment on this line 3-4, the hook may be made to swing on this line as a pivotal line, but if the hook be also fastened to the garment by the bend c, that is to say, on the line between the plane 3-et and the plane of the top of the hook B, and also fastened by the bend c and the lower bend of the eye, that is to say, on the line l2, a very secure fastening 'issecured which is of the garments.

It will, of course, be understood that any number of undulations 0' may be formed in the fastening shanks between the bend c and the fastening eyes 0 The construction of the hook A is identical with that of the eye in regard to the undulating shank, the hook proper being formed by bringing together the side-bars a into substantial contact at the point a: as in the case of the eye; the side-bars a forming a nose a by bending the same forward, as shown. (See Fig. 2.) The bill or tongue a of the hook is bent downward as at its end a so that a narrow path is formed between the nose a and highest importance in fastening devices for 7 in Fig. 2.

When sewing a series of hooks or eyes to a dress, the same are placed so that the fastening-eye o of the one touches the fasteningeye of the next. Thus the hooks A or eyes 13 are placed at regular intervals without having to ascertain their location by measurement. The stitches are not only made at the fastening eyes 0 but also at the bends c 0. Thus the hooks and eyes are very firmly secured to the fabric against movement in any direction. The eyes B are inserted between the parts a a of the corresponding hooks and it requires considerable pressure to force the eye 1) past the nose a and bend a (or nose on); but when the eye B has been drawn behind the nose 03, it is not possible for the said eye to disengage itself from the hook, unless it be drawn out intentionally.

The modification illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is distinugished merely by the fact that the tongue at of the hook is made straight instead of bending the end of the same downward. I prefer, however, to employ the form of construction shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 2, as the narrow path formed between end a (or nose at) and nose at (Figs. 2 and 2) is of greater length than in the case of the form shown at Fig. 4, and in consequence thereof effects a better locking of the eyes when drawn behind the nose a It will be seen that by my improved hook and eye a support is formed for the material to which they are attached, by the elongated fastening shanks, thus preventing gaps be tween the hooks or eyes on each side of the garment.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A book or eye bent up from a single piece of wire and having its side-bars brought together into substantial contact, each of said side-bars connecting with a shank by a curve extending from the point of contact of the sidebars, the said shank being undulated and having its undulations extending above and below the plane of the lowerends of the sidebars and terminating in an eye, whereby the hook or eye may be secured to agarment by the eyes and by a row of stitches on either side of the plane of the lower ends of the sidebars, substantially as described.

2. A hook or eye bent up from a single length of wire and having its side bars brought together into substantial contact at the lowermost point of the side-bars, a shank extending from each side-bar in a curve to a plane below the lowermost point of the sidebars, thence extending in a curve to a plane above the plane of the point of contact of the lower ends of the side-bars and between this last mentioned plane and the plane of the top of the hook or eye, thence extending in a curve to a plane below the plane of the point of contact of the side-bars and returning to the plane of the point of contact of the sidebars and terminating in a fastening eye in the plane of the point of contact of the sidebars, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

AUGUST IRYM.

lVitnesses:

JOHN IIEGKMANNS, GEO. R. CARROLL. 

